Blog Roll
April 08, 2016
Learning about the distribution of plants and animals in relation to place and time, particularly in BC ...
- Biogeography - Geog 274 (Jillian Harvey) Jan - Apr 2016
September 9, 2015
I am very happy to be learning more about the physical world in live in ... the atmosphere, weather, climate, rivers, glaciers, earthquakes, coastal processes ...
- Physical Geography - Geog 103 (Ian Walker) Sep - Dec 2015
January 11, 2015
Further to my Phenology of Place project, I decided to learn to program web applications using JavaScript, and to learn database management using sqlite
- World Wide Web and Mobile Applications: Native Plant Field Guide App - CSC 130 (Yvonne Coady) Sep - Dec 2014
- Geog 101A students use this version of the UVic Native Plant Field Guide App Jan - Apr 2015, Sept - Dec 2015
- Database Management & Visualization - CSC 370 (Alex Thomo) Sep - Dec 2014
May 13, 2014
I am delighted to announce that Prof Eric Higgs has agreed to supervise my Directed Studies project: Phenology of Place at UVic. I will be designing a database, using phenological phase info mined from 5+ years of Native Plant Photographs @ UVic, to create a phenological calendar
- Phenology of Place @ UVic - ES 490 (Eric Higgs) May - Aug 2014
April 7, 2014
Seasons come and seasons go ...
- WSANEC Ethnoecology - ES 381 (Nick Claxton) Jan - Apr 2014
- GIS Applications & Tools - Geog 329 (Ian O'Connell) Jan - Apr 2013
- Intro To Remote Sensing - Geog 228 (Maycira Costa) Sep - Dec 2012
- Ecological Restoration - ES 341 (Brian Starzomski) Sep - Dec 2012
July 13, 2012
Another season passes, with more Environmental Studies & Geography credit courses tucked into my learning-tool-box, over the last 1 1/2 years.
- Cartography - Geog 323 (Ian O'Connell) Jan - Apr 2012
- Environment, Society & Sustainability - Geog 101A (Rosaline Canessa) Jan - Apr 2012
- Traditional Land Resource Management - ES 423 (Brenda Beckwith) Nov 2011
- Intro to Mapping & GIS - Geog 222 (Ian O'Connell) Sep - Dec 2011
- Topics in Political Ecology: Integral Systems Theory - Intro to Principals & Practice - ES 380 (Duncan Taylor) Jul 2011
- Advanced Topics in Ethnoecology - ES 481 (Nancy Turner) Jan - Apr 2011
- Ecological Processes - ES 240 (Trevor Lantz) Jan - Apr 2011
December 29, 2010
I've been making note of the terms for Kinds of Place / Ecotopes that I am aware of at UVic, and some of the place names I know, and/or have created from familiar useage, both generic and site-specific (with a nod of thanx to Leslie Main Johnson - 2010)
- Animal & Bird Ecology: Habitat: Blue Heron feeding spot, duck ponds, Hawk woods, woodpecker trees; Deer: browsing patches, trails, yards; Nest: empty; Hummingbird; Rabbit: trails, burrows, root-digging places
- Built Landscapes: Gardens: Finnerty Gardens, Native Plant Garden; Parking Lots: Finnerty Garden/Interfaith Chapel, Fraser Bldg/Bowker Creek, library, McLauren, SSMB
- Spiritual Places: Multi-Faith Chapel, Mystic Vale Trail, Native Plant Garden, Totem Poles
- Topographic Features: Bowker Creek Watershed, Mount Tolmie, Mystic Vale Watershed
- Trails: Bowker Creek Trail, Deer Trails, Mystic Vale Trail
- Vegetation: Meadow: camas, garry oak, grass; Forest: Broken Birch Hollow, Faculty Club Woods, Fallen Maple Woods, Fraser Woods, Ivy-covered Poplar Grove, Pacific Crabapple, Place of Leaning Dogwood; Berry patches: himalayan blackberry, oregon grape, salal, salmonberry, strawberry, thimbleberry, trailing blackberry; Stinging Nettle patches
- Water & Wet Places: creek, ditch, drain, pond, puddle; Bowker Creek, Faculty Club Pond, Mystic Vale
Tags: Animals, Birds, Place, Plants
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December 13, 2010
I will continue to be adding regular seasonal observations, made since May 2010: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn
Tags: Web
I have been waiting over 30 years for the opportunity to be able to study with my current ethnobotany and ethnoecology teacher Dr. Nancy Turner!!
Tags: Course, ES, Ethnobotany, Teacher
Remembering my first ethnobotany teacher Dr. Norma Myers, a Mohawk elder herbal healer, married to Carey Myers, a Kwakwaka'wakw heritary chief from Alert Bay. I apprenticed with Norma for four months in Alert Bay, during the fall of 1977, and again in Vancouver, for 2 months in 1979, earning a diploma in Herbal Therapeutics.
Tags: Course, Ethnobotany, Teacher
I am a student in Environmental Studies at University of Victoria, BC, starting May 2010.
- Political Ecology - ES 301 (Kara Shaw) Sep - Dec 2010
- Ethnobotany - ES 421 (Nancy Turner) Sep - Dec 2010
- Ethnoecology - ES 321 (Robert Bandringa) Jun 2010
- Introduction to Environmental Science - ES 200 (Duncan Taylor) May 2010
- Community Mapping - Geog 391 (TA for Charles Burnett) May 2010
I started at UVic studying 10 different Social Sciences weekly topics in Uni 102, Jan-Apr 2009, including Community Mapping (Ken Josephson) & Environment Studies (Brenda Beckwith), which confirmed for me that I LOVE Maps & studying my environment. I have been a volunteer community mapper & web-wizard in UVic Geography's Community Mapping Initiative since April 2009, & applied as an undergrad student in Jan 2010 - I Love To Learn!
I am also a student/student liaison in Uni 201, studying different monthly topics, in four 2 1/2 hour classes:
- Personality and Social Cognition in Adulthood (Janet Love) Jan 2011
- Systems Thinking To Change The World (Colleen McCormick) Nov 2010
- The Human Body: Activity & Plasticity (Gabriella Nasuti) Oct 2010
- Creative Writing: Freeing the Writer Within (Brenda Protor) Sep 2010
- The Art of Place: Role of Community-based Art in Academia (Brenda Beckwith & Ken Josephson) Aug 2010
- Intro to Contemporary Photography (Jocelyn Beyak) Jul 2010
- Changing the World through Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (Colleen McCormick) Jun 2010
- Mass Media & Community (Doug West) Apr 2010
- Uni 102: Social Sciences (student liaison) Jan-Apr 2010
- Uni 101: Humanities (student) Sep-Dec 2009
- Uni 102: Social Sciences (student) Jan-Apr 2009
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Dec 22, 2010:
I added a Photo Gallery webpage for larger images linked to from Blog & Seasonal Webpages
Tags: Web
Dec 20, 2010:
I added a Plant Identification webpage, with tables including common, latin names, & links to frottage images I created earlier this summer
Tags: Web
Dec 13, 2010:
Added a webpage for My Projects: Readings, Research, Web-related
Tags: Web
Dec 12, 2010:
Added a webpage for each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, noting date & time of changes
Tags: Web
Dec 11, 2010:
Added some Web Links that I've been collecting ... Activism, Birds, Blogs, Botanical Photographs, Camping, Environmental Studies, Etc, EthnoBotany, Gardening, Indigenous Knowledge, Marine, Nature Printing, Plant ID, Prints, Seasonal Rounds, Stars, Survival Info, Taxonomy
Tags: Web
Dec 11, 2010:
I created this website to keep track of the seasonal changes at UVic ... & document my sense of Home Place ...
Tags: Web
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